Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every Catholic is supposed to know that impotency is a complete "impediment" to Catholic marriage. A priest may raise the question if he sees...
...buggy, a hunter and his dog, children drinking at a well, cats, chickens, livestock, a plow and a manure pile. Said Professor Faricy to complaining artists as he took his leave: "It is the finest piece of primitive art I have ever seen. If any riots start, you know where to find me." No riots followed, but Missouri fairgoers stood in line to gape at Mrs. Lewis' work, stared at the painting that took second prize: a reclining nude by one Robert Graham...
...news from the other side. Hedging Italy's borders, for example, are reported about 100 small, telegraphic transmitters, some of which have lately been suspected of sending off streams of dashes to hedge off U. S. short-wave radio transmissions to Italy. Each such transmitter, radio engineers know, could be operated to transmit a "sawtooth" signal which could affect all broadcasting on a band 300 kilocycles wide (as much air space as 30 U. S. stations occupy...
...Fish left together in groups get to know one another personally," wrote Dr. Noble in the Collecting Net* last week, "even where there are no sexual or individual external differences which the human eye can distinguish. [They form] social hierarchies. One fish can strike a second fish without being struck in return, and the second has the same right of 'passing the blow' to a third individual. These . . . 'pecking orders' owe their existence not to strength but to psychic factors, such as the period of residence in an area. . . . Many fish devote most of their energies...
...lawyer, Arthur Train has been assistant district attorney of New York County. As a writer, he has authored 40 books from love stories (The Needle's Eye) to firsthand reporting of his police and court experiences (Courts, Criminals and the Camorra). But most people know Arthur Train as the creator of tall, gaunt, kindly, shrewd, humorous, cigar-smoking Lawyer Ephraim Tutt, who by using the tricks of the law to outsmart the tricks of the law, manages to evoke a brand of justice that, if not strictly according to Blackstone, is humane and just...